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ID: 1045081
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1045081
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Licata (inhabited place)  Licata (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 06 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.1000  decimal degrees
Long: 013 56 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 13.9333  decimal degrees

Note: Town on site of archaic settlements; city was founded on the right bank of the Salso in 282 BCE by Phintias, tyrant of Agrigentum. He razed Gela and moved the inhabitants here, into a grandiose, planned city.

Names:
Licata (preferred,C,V)
Phintias (H,V)
Plintis (H,V)
Φιντίας (H,V,Greek,U)
Alicata (H,V)
Geloi (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italia (nation)  ........  Italia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sicilia (region (administrative division))  ............  Sicilia (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of unified Italy from 1861
Hierarchy of Agrigento (province)  ................  Agrigento (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Licata (inhabited place)  ....................  Licata (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)

Related geographic places:
moved from ....  Gela .......... (inhabited place)
..................  (World, Europe, Italia, Sicilia, Caltanissetta province) [7003803]

Sources and Contributors:
Φιντίας..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Alicata..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Geloi..........  [VP]
..............  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Licata..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 112
Phintias..........  [VP]
.................  Pleiades (2006-) http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462424
.................  Talbert, Barrington Atlas of Greek and Roman World (2000)
Plintis..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -120136
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 112
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites [online] (2000-)

 

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